SUBJECT
Title
Quantum gases I
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
- Experiments with trapped ultracold bosons
- Bose-Einstein condensation in external potential in the noninteracting model
- Derivation and solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation at zero temperature
- Thomas-Fermi approximation for the condensate.
- Density wave excitations for bosons, Bogoliubov equations for bosons
- Quantum hydrodynamics for the excitations (for bosons)
- The atomic laser
- Vortices in quantum gases
Readings
- Landau, L.D., Lifsic, I.M., Elméleti Fizika III, Kvantummechanika Tankönyvkiadó (1978)
- Fetter A. L., Walecka J. D., Quantum theory of many-particle systems, McGraw-Hill (1971)
- Haken, H., Wolf, H.C., The Physics of Atoms and Quanta – Introduction to Experiments and Theory, Springer (2005)
- M. Inguscio, S. Stringari, C. E. Wieman (szerk.), Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases, IOS Press (1999)
- Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases , F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari, Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 463-512 (1999)